Creativity types
Combinatorial creativity
Concept extraction
e.g. comparing an atom to the solar system
Started to augment non-speakers’ dialog using puns
Connecting disparate semantic ideas through language both helps language disabled and is a basis for humor
language play leads to humor and learning
Exploratory creativity
Concept exploration
Transformational creativity
Concept induction
Change style to enable “impossible”
Triz
Specific problem -> general problem -> general solution -> specific solution
Exposes that there are many ways to solve a problem
Generative design
This is the direction System Engineering is heading
Ideally, we want to find all possible forms that could satisfy the function
The trick is eliminating efficiently